Prompt 2 of 7
Name a mammal with stripes
218 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Tenrec— Madagascar's streaked tenrec wears yellow stripes and chirps by rubbing its quills.
85 ptsDeep Cut176 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- African civet
- African linsang
- African striped weasel
- African wild ass
- African wildcat
- Agile wallaby
- Allen's striped bat
- Andean mountain cat
- Antelope squirrel
- Arabian gazelle
- Asian golden cat
- Asian striped squirrel
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Back-striped sportive lemur
- Back-striped weasel
- Badger Face Welsh Mountain sheep
- Banded hare-wallaby
- Banded langur
- Banded linsang
- Banded palm civet
- Barbary ground squirrel
- Bearded pig
- Berdmore's ground squirrel
- Black-footed cat
- Black-striped capuchin
- Black-striped squirrel
- Black-striped wallaby
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Brindle horse
- Broad-striped vontsira
- Brown hyena
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
- Bushbuck
- Bushpig
- Cacomistle
- Cape ground squirrel
- Caracal
- Chamois
- Chevrotain
- Chinese hamster
- Chinese mountain cat
- Chinkara
- Civet
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Cuvier's gazelle
- De Brazza's monkey
- Dorcas gazelle
- Dragon Li
- Dun horse— Dun coats always carry a dorsal stripe, usually leg bars too.
- Dutch Shepherd
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Egyptian Mau
- Ethiopian striped mouse
- European wildcat
- Ferret-badger
- Fishing cat
- Fjord horse
- Four-horned antelope
- Four-striped grass mouse
- Fraser's dolphin
- Gambian mongoose
- Gemsbok
- Genet
- Geoffroy's cat
- Giant anteater
- Giant eland
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
- Grandidier's vontsira
- Grant's gazelle
- Greater white-lined bat
- Grison
- Heck horse
- Heuglin's gazelle
- Hog badger
- Hog-nosed skunk
- Hooded skunk
- Hourglass dolphin
- Indian palm squirrel
- Jungle cat
- Kai Ken
- King cheetah
- Kodkod
- Konik
- Leadbeater's possum
- Leopard cat
- Liberian mongoose
- Mahogany glider
- Malagasy civet
- Mangalica
- Marbled cat
- Marbled polecat
- Margay
- Masked palm civet
- Mountain gazelle
- Mountain nyala
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Nilgai
- Nubian ibex
- Nyala
- Oberhasli goat
- Onager
- Oncilla
- Oryx
- Owl-faced monkey
- Owston's palm civet
- Pacific white-sided dolphin
- Pallas's cat
- Pampas cat
- Peters's striped mouse
- Pied bat
- Plott hound
- Prevost's squirrel
- Pronghorn
- Przewalski's horse
- Pygmy hog
- Quagga— A zebra striped only at the front, hunted out by 1883.
- Red river hog
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Ribbon seal
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Ringtail
- Roan antelope
- Rope squirrel
- Russian dwarf hamster
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Sable antelope
- Saharan striped polecat
- Sand cat
- Saola
- Savannah cat
- Side-striped jackal
- Sitatunga
- Slow loris
- Soemmerring's gazelle
- Sokoke
- Sorraia
- Speke's gazelle
- Spotted linsang
- Spotted skunk— Named for spots that are really broken-up stripes.
- Squirrel glider
- Stink badger
- Stripe-faced bat
- Stripe-faced dunnart
- Stripe-headed black langur
- Stripe-necked mongoose
- Striped bat
- Striped bush squirrel
- Striped field mouse
- Striped grass mouse
- Striped ground squirrel
- Striped hairy-nosed bat
- Striped polecat
- Striped possum
- Striped rabbit
- Striped rice rat
- Striped shrew
- Striped shrew rat
- Striped treeshrew
- Tarpan
- Three-striped dasyure
- Three-striped ground squirrel
- Three-striped night monkey
- Three-striped opossum
- Tigon
- Toggenburg goat
- Toyger
- Treeing Tennessee Brindle
- Warty pig
- Western barred bandicoot
- Whiptail wallaby
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Zebra duiker
- Zebroid
60 ptsRare32 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Aardwolf
- Armadillo— Those bands are hinged armor plates rather than fur.
- Banded mongoose
- Bengal cat
- Bobcat
- Bongo
- Brindle dog— Brindle is the tiger-stripe coat gene, common in boxers.
- Cheetah— Spotted everywhere except the two black tear stripes on its face.
- Coati
- Donkey— A dark stripe runs down the back and across the shoulders.
- Impala
- Kudu
- Liger
- Lynx
- Meerkat
- Numbat
- Ocelot
- Red panda
- Serval
- Springbok
- Striped dolphin
- Striped hyena
- Sugar glider
- Tapir— Newborn calves wear watermelon stripes for about six months.
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Thomson's gazelle
- Thylacine— Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo held the last known one until 1936.
- Wild boar— Piglets are born in humbug stripes that fade by four months.
- Wildebeest— Called the brindled gnu for the dark bars down its neck.
- Wolverine
- Zonkey
- Zorse
30 ptsSchooler7 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Badger
- Chipmunk
- Lemur
- Okapi
- Raccoon— Ringed tail bands are stripes by any playground definition.
- Skunk
- Tabby cat
10 ptsPlankton2 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Tiger
- Zebra